Carmen Carrera Talks Family, Career, and Her Star Turn in Ricki and the Flash

Transgender model-actress Carmen Carrera has long been a pop-culture trailblazer on America's small screens—lighting up the reality show circuit on RuPaul's Drag Race and testing the (soapy) thespian waters on The Bold and the Beautiful.

This Friday, Carrera debuts in her first non-transgender film role opposite Meryl Streep as the lead hairstylist in Ricki and the Flash. She sat down with *Glamour *to talk about her turn on the silver screen—as well as family, her sense of self, the transgender movement, and more.